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News, good and bad and…

nekosasu | September 16, 2009 | 3:41 pm

So, I’m just back from my short trip to the UK (to check out the campus, my accommodation, and get a glimpse of the atmosphere overall), and I received some good and bad news upon arrival. Recruiting writers! More info after the jump.

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Update your bookmarks, feeds and whatnot - we’re moving!

nekosasu | October 12, 2009 | 3:17 pm
Thank you...
Thank you…

Yep, the fated day has finally come - we are moving, away.

The reasons for this are fairly simple, but since I don’t want to obscure the essential information, I placed the necessary justifications between spoiler tags. »Show me dat spoiler!«

Animeblogger.net simply is not what it used to be back in the days, where there was an active community, and active support. Not saying I ever got involved with the community (which was a pretty reciprocal feeling, really), but I appreciated Maestros ever so friendly and helping hand for my wp troubles.

Nowadays, it’s like, dead. Nevermind Maestro’s bad health - I really wish him all the best - but the whole community and support is like dead. In July, I purchased my own domain to upvalue this blog a little bit, and I requested it being mapped over the blog, but I never received a reply whether it was feasible or not (some staff told me it would work, but there was never a follow-up on that…). It has gone almost three months to waste, well, apart from serving as a basic redirection to the aniblogger URL.

Moreover, the new servers are extremely unreliable and SLOW. Last time, I could download a 350 MB episode faster than I could refresh my blog, and that means something. I agree, internal (financial) issues were the reason for the move, and servers are now in Singapore or wherever in SEA, but this doesn’t mean my blog should load at 5 KB/s in average. So, fed up with all of this, I decided to leave Animeblogger. (Should have said “we”, but I didn’t tell Matt about it before either, so…)

No hard feelings, it’s just that there are many faster and more reliable alternatives right now.

So, where are we moving? Well, there’s a nifty place called NotCliche.com, owned and managed by Netto. His hosting offer was the most appealing one, so I went for it. Setup was easy, sortof, but then it was quite a bumpy road to get the domain working (two clueless blokes, double the confusion). But eventually (read: a couple of minutes ago) we got there fine.

The new address - drum roll please - is…

http://www.nekosthinkbox.com
Don’t ask me why I didn’t buy the .net one…

Since it might take a couple of hours (maybe days) for the DNS to propagate, it might not be directly accessible - http://neko.notcliche.com should work instead for the time being. Feeds seem to be going crazy too (I think feedburner is to blame), I shall hopefully work it out once the new DNS is spread.

I am not sure how this blog at animeblogger will end up like, either it will be left to rot away and die, or just be deleted, if anyone actually cares to. Meanwhile, I will make it so that every post redirects to the new blog address, so there shouldn’t be any trouble with posting comments or whatever.

Apart from the domain and new space, nothing will change. I will still post my random reviews and impressions whenever I feel like it, Matt will still post his reviews every other month, and perhaps, who knows, a new writer might join us? We’ll see.

I feel kind of sad that after almost three years (this blog started on January 14th 2007), the collaboration with animeblogger.net has come to an end. There are so many good and bad memories linked to this place, and I feel pretty nostalgic looking back to those humble times. Despite these recent problems, I will dearly miss this place. Alas, such is life, we have to move on.

So, we will see you on http://www.nekosthinkbox.com! Bye!

-nekosasu

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Saki Ends, Wa-ha-ha~

nekosasu | October 7, 2009 | 4:09 pm
Let's go!
Let's go!

Well, after one week of getting used to my new environment here at Brighton (delicious uni proxy:80, 6 MByte/s DDLs and a Love Plus-similar situation which I swiftly explained on my twitter), I think it is finally time to start clearing the summer backlog!

Wa. Ha. Ha~

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Ar Tonelico II Manga Volume 3 (End)

nekosasu | September 24, 2009 | 11:35 pm
Ar Tonelico II Vol.3 cover
Ar Tonelico II Vol.3 cover

Obviously, I was very busy today packing my last stuffs for the UK, so I barely had enough time to read the last volume of this manga. Since it’s pretty late, I’ll try to keep it short. ^^;

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Ar Tonelico II Manga Volume 2

nekosasu | September 23, 2009 | 5:24 pm
Ar Tonelico II Vol.2 Cover
Ar Tonelico II Vol.2 Cover

Spent the whole morning in a waiting room at the hospital, the doctor being over an hour late for appointments - best conditions to keep reading manga! And I’m sure a lot of people were just wondering what kind of moonrunes I was reading there. (笑)

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Ar Tonelico II Manga Volume 1

nekosasu | September 22, 2009 | 10:10 pm
Ar Tonelico II Vol. 1 cover
Ar Tonelico II Vol. 1 cover

Ah, what a grand relief and enjoyment reading this manga.

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Ar Tonelico ~arpeggio~

nekosasu | September 21, 2009 | 2:44 pm
Page 01
Page 01

This is the first time I am reviewing a manga on this blog, and, err, I have no experience whatsoever, so bear with me ^^;

Besides, I had 39°C fever this morning, it went a little down in the meantime, but I’m still not feeling better. Headache + coughing is killing me. x_x

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